Good T.V mini-series, but a confused story line that makes the early part of the movie, long convoluted and uninteresting. The characters are not fully developed and as such we dont really care about any of them, besides we already know what is going to happen. The battle sequences are O.K. but one does not get the feel of a large cast engaged in a large Cavalry battle. Most shots have only a few actors in them, and there are no large panoramic shots of a Cavalry Brigade in action. The previous week I had watched TARAS BULBA with Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis. The Cavalry sequences were broad, expansive shots which gave the feel of a Cavalry charge. Here probably due to budgetary concerns there is never a massive Cavalry charge or even feel of Cavalry combat. Perhaps if the film had adressed some of Custers early Civil War heroics this problem might have been cured. But it did not. Still the natural beauty of the Great Plains of the American West comes through. IT would be almost impossible to miss it in any film made there. Here we get the full affect. But the storyline, the plastic characters, the uninteresting battle sequences, and its pure length make this move a very difficult film to sit through at one sitting. AS such its a FIVE.
Review of Son of the Morning Star
